Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1919-1981. (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
75 boxes, 3 parcels, 1 item.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Brian Sweeney was born in Gympie, Queensland in 1925. He served in the RAAF from 1944 to 1945. He was a proprietor of his family’s soft drink company and was the Federal President of the Australian Soft Drink Manufacturers Association from 1954 to 1956. Sweeney was chairman of the Twelfth Night Theatre from 1971 to 1974. He was on the Committee of Review of the ABC from 1979 to 1981, the Inquiry into Opera Music Theatre in 1980, the Australia Council from 1975 to 1977. He was chairman of the Theatre Board from 1977 to 1981. Sweeney was also a member of the Queensland Turf Club. He was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael & St. George in 1982 for his services to the arts.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1919-1981
Collection alternatively titled as: Brian Sweeney Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Submissions, correspondence, minutes, compendiums, working papers, public hearings, reports, draft reports, publications, periodicals, newspaper clippings, newsletters, meeting agendas, articles, applications, inquiries, pamphlets/booklets, program reviews, financial statements/reports, notebooks, meeting calendars, poems/prose, theatre programmes (Australian and overseas). Material includes items from Committee of Review of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the Australia Council, and the Australian Bicentennial Authority’s 200 Unsung Heroes and Heroines Program.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Alma MMS ID
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Sweeney, Brian, 1925-1999 (Subject)
- Committee of Review of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (Subject)
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Subject)
- Australia Council (Subject)
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Description control area
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Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Migrated
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.